Electric conductor



(No Model.)

C. W. BASSBTT.

ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR.

No. 475,920. M Patented May 31, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES V. BASSETT, OF NEIVTON, ASSIGNOR TO THE IVASHBURN du MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,920, dated May 3.1, 1892.

Application filed February 1, 1892. Serial No. 419,999. (No model.)

To nl l whom t may concern: or tube without cracks or joints, surrounding 55 1 3@ 1t known that I, CHARLES W. BAssET'r, a the conductor. citizen of the United States, residing at New- In order to protect the insulating material ton, in the county of Middlesex and State of 2 from external wear and abrasion and the 5 Massachusetts, havoinvented certain new and possibility of its being broken ott, so as to useful Improvements in Insulating Electric expose the metallic conductor l, I cover the 6o Conductors; and I do hereby declare that the same with a protective covering or coating following is a full, clear, and exact description 3, which may be made of any well-known mathereof, which, in connection with the drawterial used for this purpose, and is applied to to ings making a part of this specification, will the insulating material to extend over and enable others skilled inthe art to which my cover the same in any well-known way. 65 invention belongs to make and use the same. I have shown in Fig. l the protective cov- My invention relates toinsulating metallic ering or coating 3 in the form of a braided conductors of electricity; and the object of fabric, of cotton or other fibrous material,

I5 my invention is to make an electric conductor and in Fig. 2 in the form of a coating of rubprovided with a cheap, light, and effective beror other suitable material. The protective 7o insulator applied thereto to insulate the same. covering or coat-ing may be of inflammable My invention consists in my improved inmaterial, it desired.

sulation of electric conductors, and more par- The advantages of my improved insulated 2o ticularly in combining with the metallic conelectric conductor will be appreciated bythose ductor a non-conductor or insulating coverskilled in the art. 75 ing or coating consisting of paper or paper- I provide an insulated electric conductor pulp applied to and surrounding the metallic of very light weight and of very simple and conductor andaprotective covering surroundcheap construction. The paper or papering the insulating covering, as will be hereinpulp which forms the non-conductor or insuafter fully described. lating covering for the metallic conductor is So Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a lonused in gelatinous or moldablecondition, so gitudinal view of my improved insulated electhat it may be readily applied to the metallic tric conductor, partially in section, showing conductor and formed into al seamless tube 3o one form of the protective covering for the encircling the same.

paper insulator; and Fig. 2 corresponds with Having thus described my invention, what S5 Fig. l, but shows another form of the pro- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lettective covering. ters Patent, is

In the accompanying drawings, l is themel. As an improved article of manufacture, tallic conductor, of any desired size or shape, au insulated electric conductor consisting of which is to be insulated. a metallic conductor having` a seamless coat- 9o l 2 is the insulator or the insulating material, ing of paper extending over the same and a which is made of paper or paper-pulp, and protective covering extending over said coatwhich consists of a moldable mass of paper ing of paper, substantially as set forth.

4o or paper-pulp applied to the metallic con- 2. An elec-tric conductor consisting ofa meductor l, so as to completely surround the tallic conductor, an insulating covering of 93 same and form a seamless tube of circular or seamless paper extending over the same, and oval shape extending over the conductor l. a protective covering extending over the inl It will be understood that the insulating masulating covering, substantially as set forth.

. terial 2, made of paper or paper-pulp, is not 3. The combination, with a metallic conapplied to the metallic conductor l in the ductor, ofaseamless paper coating surroundico form of sheets or strips Wrapped around the ing said metallic conductor and applied thereconductor, leaving seams and cracks for the to, and a protective covering or coating surescape of the electricity from the conductor; rounding said seamless paper coating, subbut said insulating material 2, made of paper stantially as set forth.

or paper-pulp, is applied to the conductor 1 CHARLES IV. BASSETT. in a moldable form, as a coating, which is lVitnesses:

pressed onto or otherwise applied to the me- KATIE FAREELL,

tallic conductor l to form a seamless covering JOHN J. POWERS. 

